Is there something mass-produced that's flexible and consistent like gridfinity? As a non 3d printer owner, I've been looking for something I can just buy that would work.
Have you tried it in a private window? Search temu, amazon, aliexpress etc for the term I mentioned above. There are several Chinese vendors, so I won't give a brand. They are a set of boxes, a small square, one twice as long etc
Maybe it's time to do pair agentic engineering? Have two engineers at the screen, writing the prompts together, and deciding how to verify the results.
In MCP setups you do give the agent the full description of what the tool can do, but I don't see why you couldn't do the same for executables. Something like injecting `tool_exe --agent-usage` into the prompt at startup.
Great article otherwise. I've been wondering why people are so zealous about MCP vs executable tools, and it looks like it's just tradeoffs between implementation differences to me.
Yes, sites should support a NoAds header that agents can provide, which ensures that the site doesn't provide any ads that the agent could accidentally click on.
The site would then be providing information to the AI, without and means of generating revenue to keep going. Where is the incentive for commercial sites to play this game?
This came up years ago with the Google Answer Box. People were pretty upset that Google wasn’t sending people to the actual websites anymore and just scraping the relevant content. It was seen stealing potential ad revenue from the author who did the work to put the information out on the internet.
I haven’t heard a lot of talk about out about this with LLM, even though they are like the Google Answer Box on steroids. What I’ve heard more is the general talk of IP theft during training.
When people complain about housing prices being too high, this is what I usually point them to. There are _a lot_ of boxes to tick, some of those boxes are critical, some are not so much. Some are severely punished, some are not so much. Some have extremely high costs and are a PITA, some not so much.
because you find it ugly? Because the city/HOA is asking? Because it's a political message you don't agree with (or don't want your house to get burned for it)?
As a renter, graffiti is great for me, it keeps property values down which keeps rent lower. And given that I don't aesthetically give a shit about it, it's win/neutral for me.
We begin teaching math by having students solve problems that are trivial for a calculator.
Though I also wonder what advanced CS classes should look like. If they agent can code nearly anything, what project would challenge student+agent and teach the student how to accomplish CS fundamentals with modern tools.
In one of my college classes, after you submitted your project you'd have a short meeting with a TA and/or the professor to talk through your solution. For a smaller advanced class I think this kind of thing is feasible and can help prevent blind copy/pasting. If you wrote your code with an LLM but you're still able to have a knowledgeable conversation about it, then great, that's what you're going to do in the real world too. If you can't answer any questions about it and it seems like you don't understand your own code, then you don't get a good grade even if it works.
As an added bonus, being able to discuss your code with another engineer that wasn't involved in writing it is an important skill that might not otherwise be trained in college.
I wonder if you could calculate a "probability of response to major alert" and make it the inverse of the total or irrelevant alerts. Then you get to ask "our probability of major alert saliency is onlt 6%. Why have the providers set it at this level, and what can we do to raise it?"
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